Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-11-03
FARM NOTES.


Massachusetts, the other in Connecticut,
during the present year from that lOathe-
some disease known as CHAMBERS. In
both cases the disease was contracted
while the men were attempting to cure
horses by treatment. The sooner horse
men learn that this disease is incurable,
and that glandered animal is an unsafe
animal to have around, the sooner the
newspapers will cease to record cases of
loss of human life from treating or hand
ling such horses.
Dorset sheep have been recomm ended
for raising in the southern states, princi
pally for the reason that they breed twice
a year. In the east of England the lambs
dropped in the fall are sold at high pri-
ces during the midwinter holidays, and
are source of great profit to the farm
ers. Obviously there would he no profit
in fall lambs when winters are as cold as
they are in the northern states.
The Russian mulberry must have the
credit of being really by far the hardest
of the mulberries. 1t is but little in
jured by our severest winters. It's fruit
does not amount to much, but it makes
pretty small tree, and if silk culture ever
gets foothold in America it will extend
the possibility of producing that COM
modify some two hundred miles further
north than heretofore.
A farmer in the south of England re-
Gently fell down a precipice distance of
over sixty feet and was dashed in pieces
by Coming in contact with the rocks.
HidcoIIie dog wentf to the body and
and barked till he had called the neigh
bos5. Vie piioted them down to where
&c ao{a 10, foil 10
kept watch over it till it was placed
in the grave.
Where the weeds have been moved and
become dry it would be best to burn
them in field where they fell rather
than to do so in heaps, if they had seeded
before being moved, as burning them in
that manner will destroy large number
of seeds which would be shaken out on
the ground if the weeds should be heaped
in piles.
A large crop of chinch-bugs was raised
on the To- va agricultural farm this sea-
son. The number found on one square
incd of soil sown 70 Hungarian grass was
found by actual count to be 1908. Who
said agricultural colleges were Of no val
ue to farmers, and that the professors in
them do not earn their salaries.
There are immense forests of hemlock
in Oregon and Washington territory, but
the bark is said to be nearly destitute of
tannin, and therefore useless for manu-
featuring leather. The most tannin is
found in the hemlock of Maine, and the
further west the tree grows the less tan
min is found.
The best way to kill out willows is to
nAaI them three f0ur feat from, tb a
ground down to the earth, severing the
bark from the stree, which should be
done the latter part of spring, leaving the
trees to stand, which die and make excell-
ent stove-wood.
The potato crop in the vicinity of
DEVILS lake, Idaho, is excellent. One
farmers crop averaged three hundred
bushels per acre, which was sold at the
nearest railway station for 55 cents per
bushel, to send to this city.
Never within the memory of man have
mushrooms been as plenty in English
fields and pastures as they this fall.
Many farmers are packing them and send
ing them to large towns to sell.
Many western farmers report that
wheat pays them more when fed to hogs
than when sold at present prices. Some
claim that they have made dollars
worth of pork from bushel of wheat.
The Japanese are about to supply
themselves with machine-made bricks.
They have ordered from German firm
machinery capable of turning out 16, 0O0,-
600 bricks yearly.
A Massachusetts, fish-raiser says Ger
man carp are little better than suckers
and not quite as good as bullheads.